Worst Beach Boys Song on Sunflower - Part 8 in an Ongoing Series

voting Deirdre, which is slightly worse than Tears in the Morning and lacking the latter's sweet harmonies

They are probably the two worst songs on there but I still like them!

I've always wondered what the fuck is up with the ineplicable french bits in At My Window

Spanish, you mean?

It's the Beach Boys, it's not supposed to be sensible

at my window and add some music are the ones i usually skip

^ Crazy man.

Voted "Tears".

This is a great album... except for the Bruce songs, which I dislike foe the same reason I dislike Disney Girls. The whole delivery -- voice, music, sentiment -- is sickly on both songs. Voted Deirdre.

It's french for 'The sparrow came and sat at my window'.

I know what it is, its just that every time I hear it it seems really random

Despite being a pretty big BB stan, I never ever listen to this album. Like...all the songs are fairly competent but none of them are really...transcendent?

But yeah, clearly it's either Tears or Deirdre.

ahh poor Bruce Johnston, all the hate. Disney Girls is one of my Beach Boys favourites (as is The Nearest Faraway Place) must admit I've never heard Sunflower... ;)

Good thing about the twofer reissue is you can play this as a kind of warm-up for Surf's Up. Tbh I've probably only ever just played the whole cd through rather than listening to the individual albums, so I really can't pick a worst song from this, as SDT just overwhelms the whole experience. Love Johnston's songs, Tears is kind of ridiculous though, especially the 'so you've moved to Europe' > here's an accordion, that's what Europe sounds like bit. But I love it.

especially the 'so you've moved to Europe' > here's an accordion, that's what Europe sounds like bit.

^^^lolz A+

Actually as a red-haired European I can probably relate to this Beach Boys the most.

gah Beach Boys album.

Not that I'm called Deirdre, or a girl. Gah this is 3 posts I probably should've thought more about.

Don't like "Slip On Through" too much, so I went for that one. Most of this album is really great though.

This is a great album... except for the Bruce songs, which I dislike foe the same reason I dislike Disney Girls. The whole delivery -- voice, music, sentiment -- is sickly on both songs.

I like his songs on "Sunflower" better because they have the harmonies that "Disney Girls" lack.

really consistent album. "Add Some Music" has the worst lyrics, but i voted for "Cool Cool Water", an uncompleted Smile song that still seems incomplete here.

The bridge in "Add Some Music" almost ruins it -- "MUSIC!!! IS IN!!! MY SOOOOOOOOUUUUUULLLL!"...ugh.

"Cool, Cool, Water" is gorgeous- probably in my Beach Boy's top ten. Drenched in harmonies and reverb, eerie and peaceful at the same time.

"In an ocean or in a glass, cool water is such a gas."

Anyway, "Tears in the Morning" gets my pick- I kinda like "Deirdre."

What he said.

Yeah, Cool Cool Water is one of the highlights for me.

i kinda like tears in the morning. this thread is making me take a look at myself

Every song is perfect except the horrid dreary Dennis sludge of Got To Know The Woman.

nah that's the bit at the end where he talks about how you gotta c'mon and do the chicken

that's REDEEMED BY the bit at the end

"Got To Know The Woman" - it's this album's Student Demonstration Time. A hoary old (what I assume is) Mike Love track just sat plonk in the middle of a really great Beach Boys record.

oops, sorry, Dennis.

i had no idea "tears in the morning" was not loved more on here. it's a good song!

Yeah, Got to Know the Woman (along with and At My Window) would be my next choice for worst after the Bruce songs.

"So you moved out UP to Europe" always bothers me.

Yes, everyone knows Europe is to the left...

I think Canada and Europe are interchangeable for Californians

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this is the first tie, no? will they both go to the next round?

sure why not

altho I'm kinda surprised at the hate for Got to Know the Woman

i would have voted 'it's about time'. it's virtually cock-rock.

i really enjoy deirdre. a lot of beatles in this song. plus a lot of warmth.

Yeah, why didn't I vote It's About Time? And how could people hate on Deirdre? It's really sweet. Unfortunate name notwithstanding.

dunno how anyone could vote Cool Cool Water

I've never quite understood the love for this album, which strikes me as a *good* album by a band very influenced by the Beach Boys. As opposed to Surf's Up, which is a flawed album that could only have been made by the Beach Boys

Nah, it's definetely the Beach Boys. The love is because there are like 5 really amazing songs which is more than most albums. Then half of the rest are really good. I don't really understand how anyone could vote for anything other than Deirdre, Got To Know the Woman or Add Some Music. The rest is fantastic.

I mean, how could Cool Cool Water, Tears in the Morning, This Whole World etc be anybody other than the Beach Boys? They are absolutely archetypical BB numbers.

My faves on this are "Our Sweet Love" and "This Whole World" (which actually does seem to set some kind of B.Wilson record for most chord changes), but I think part of what turns me off is the "modernity" of the production. 20/20 started this, but there's something about it that places them in a classic rock context which robs them of their richness (?), for lack of a better word

WTF? Deirdre is so not the worst song on this.

20/20 is def the "classic rock" Beach Boys album but I'm not hearing it so much on Sunflower. It definitely seems like a more 'mature' album, or one which accepts itself as being of mature people. The second side rivals that of Beach Boys Today! for being pretty much a perfect run of songs.

How anyone could vote for Tears in the Morning as well.. cannibals.

The only crap songs are Got To Know The Woman and It's About Time (which I can't recall at all right now?)

No, "It's About Time" is good. Anyway I like both of us those songs, so what do I know!

'It's About Time' is one of my highlights of this album!

god i can't remember it at all.

All I Wanna Do is pretty gr8

"all i wanna do" is fantastic indeed, and better than 20/20's todd rundgren-esque "all i want to do." actually, come to think of it, "all i wanna do" could go on any of the first three sides of something/anything, while "all i want to do" would work on side 4.

i don't actually dislike the song (though fuck Bruce Johnston), but god, the way he sings "loooooooooooooad" drives me nuts.

The two songs I've omitted from this are "Got to Know the Woman" and "It's About Time". I can't stand the key changes on the former.
The two Bruce songs have a certain charm for me, they're easier to take than "Disney Girls".

Bruce himself sounds like a cock, but I like Bruce's songs, here and elsewhere. Deirdre is probably the nothingiest of them, and sounds a bit like the theme tune for a crap 70s sitcom called Deirdre, but the "lots of people miss..." chord change is quite lovely.

"Got to Know A Woman" is the real clunker on here for me, such an obnoxious and embarassing coke song, and it's a shame it's so early in the tracklisting, and yet I find it endearing, just like Student Demonstration Time on Surf's Up, and I'd miss it if it was gone.

I guess there's a distinction between bad songs that louse up an album (e.g. "My Little Problem" on All Shook Down) versus bad songs that are still an important part of the whole.

People don't like Deidre and Tears In The Morning? Those are highlights for me